The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum
Lawrence Rothfield, . . Univ. of Chicago, $25 (216pp) ISBN 978-0-226-72945-9
On the list of things that went wrong with the Iraq War, the wholesale destruction of that country's archeological inheritance often goes unmentioned. The average newspaper reader may recall that the Iraq National Museum was badly looted in the aftermath of initial hostilities, but very few realize how entirely predictable the looting was, how negligible the Bush administration's efforts were to prevent it and how far beyond the museum the thefts extended, and still continue. In this “autopsy of a cultural disaster,” Rothfield (
Reviewed on: 02/09/2009
Genre: Nonfiction
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